Introducing IBM’s API Connect 2018.1 a scalable multi-cloud API Management platform, agnostic of hypervisors or cloud providers.¬† A platform built ground up based on micro-service architecture, that is cloud native¬†to it’s core. In addition to deployment advances, new API Management tooling has been added and the user experience enhanced. This gives development teams more capabilities, while reducing the time to market of¬†their digital projects.

Introducing all of the new features and functionality would be too much to digest in a single blog. Thus the topics will be broken down and published as a blog series over a period of time. Below are blurbs of each of the topics to be covered and an end to end demo of this new solution [coming soon].

Advanced Deployment Strategies

This major version release is a complete re-architecture of our current product. Built for the future of hybrid and multi-cloud application architectures. Below are examples and highlights of the changes to API Connect deployment options:

Docker and Kubernetes based deployment as it’s foundation, and still retaining the ability¬†to deploy as an OVA.

Email templating for not just custom messages, but also notifications sent out from API Connect to users.

Extensible Visibility and Sharing Control of Cloud Resources,¬†such as ability to share with specific line of businesses building out APIs.

Role Based Access Control at Cloud Level,¬†allowing companies to extend their corporate governance to the Cloud configuration and administration.

API Manager & Developer Experience Highlights

IBM’s API Connect has had key improvements in its API Management tooling, and also undergone a user experience overhaul. Here are some highlights that will improve the workflow of developers across organizations leveraging API Connect:

Comprehensive set of APIs available enhancing customers CI/CD pipelines.¬† ¬†